1st Asia Pacific conference on Business Process Management (AP-BPM2013) Beijing, China, August 29-30, 2013 (http://www.ap-bpm.org) The Asia Pacific conference on BPM 2013 is the first edition of the reference conference for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) in the region. Its purpose is to provide a high quality forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on BPM technologies and practices that are highly relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. The conference covers all aspects of BPM, including theory, models, techniques, architectures, systems, and empirical studies. The first conference will be held on 29th-30th Aug. 2013 as a co-event of BPM2013. It will take place in Beijing, the capital of China. Next to the world-famous sites of the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, and Tiantan – four world cultural heritage sites recognized by UNESCO – Beijing hosts a constantly growing concentration of cutting-edge, industrial research labs and academic institutions from all over the world, making it a melting pot of creativity and innovation. KEY DATES * Full papers due: May 18th, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: June 1st , 2013 * Camera-ready papers deadline: June 14th, 2013 Conference topics The topics for both research and industry papers include, but are not limited to: Process modeling and theory * Foundations of business process models * Process modeling languages, notations and methods * Reference process models * Process patterns and standards * Artifact-centric business processes * Loosely structured business processes * Automated process composition and synthesis * Process metadata and semantic reasoning * Variability and configuration of process models * Process simulation and static analysis Process model management * Process model storage * Process model repositories * Process model indexing * Process model retrieval * Process model similarity * Process model transformations Process architectures and platforms * Process-oriented software architectures * Service-oriented architectures for BPM * Workflow management systems * Security aspects of business process execution * Automated planning for business process execution * Resource management in business process execution * Process componentization and component repositories Management of process execution data * Process tracing and monitoring * Process performance measurement * Process mining * Process data warehousing * Data streaming in business processes Process flexibility and evolution * Process exception handling * Adaptive and context-aware processes * Case handling * Process-enhanced groupware * Process change management * Monitoring and provenance across change Human-centric BPM * People-intensive processes * Crowdsourcing processes * Social business processes * User-centric aspects of process management and use * Integrating strategy, processes, people and IT * Globally distributed process management Non-traditional BPM scenarios * Knowledge-intensive processes * Data-driven processes * Distributed and mobile processes * Inter-process planning and coordination * Grid and scientific workflows Management issues and empirical studies * Business process lifecycle management * Relationship between business strategy and business process * Success factors and measures in BPM * BPM governance and compliance management * BPM maturity * Adoption and Practice of BPM * Case Studies and Experience Reports HONORARY CHAIR Jiaguang Sun, Tsinghua University, China GENERAL CHAIR Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Arthur ter Hofstede, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hyerim Bae, Pusan National University, Korea Jianming Wang, Tsinghua University, China Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan Budi Santosa, ITS, Indonesia STEERING COMMITTEE Honorary Chair: Arthur ter Hofstede Queensland University of Technology, Australia Executive Chair: Hyerim Bae Pusan National University, Korea Jianmin Wang Tsinghua University, China PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Moe Thandar Wynn Queensland University of Technology, Australia Minseok Song Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Jianxun Liu Hunan University of Science and Technology, China ORGANIZATION CHAIR Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China PUBLICITY CHAIR Yahui Lu, Shenzhen University, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE Saiful Akbar, ITB, Indonesia Yudistira Dwi Wardhana Asnar, ITB, Indonesia Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National University, Korea Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Namwook Cho, Seoul National Univ. of Technology, Korea Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China ZaiwenFeng, Wuhan University, China Yingbo Liu, Tsinghua University, China Yahui Lu, Shenzhen University, China Xiangpei Hu, Dalian University of Technology, China Pingyu Hsu, National Central University, Taiwan Jae-yoon Jung,Kyunghee University, Korea Dongsoo Kim, Soongsil University, Korea Kwanghoon Kim, Kyonggi University, Korea Minsoo Kim, Pukyung National University, Korea Anto Satriyo Nugroho, Center for Information & Communication Technology, Indonesia Chao Ou-Yang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Chun Ouyang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Punnamee Sachakamol, Kasetsart University, Thailand Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia Budi Santosa, ITS, Indonesia Riyanarto Sarno, ITS, Indonesia Ricardo Seguel, BPM LATAM Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia Pablo David Villarreal, National Technological University, Argentina Xuefeng Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Zhaoxia Wang, Logistical Engineering University, China Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China Yiping Wen, Central South University, China Raymond Wong, The University of New South Wales, Australia Jei-Zheng Wu, Soochow University, Taiwan Bernardo N. Yahya, UNIST, Korea Yang Yu, SUN YAT-SEN University, China Chongyi Yuan, Peking University, China HaipingZha, Naval Armament Research Institute of PLA, China Li Zhang, Tsinghua University, China Liang Zhang, Fudan University, China Yang Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Lindu Zhao, Southeast University, China Wen Zhao, Peking University, China